I can’t stand people yapping at the movies. It’s rude, self-involved, and pretty much ruins the entire cinema-going experience for everyone. Just shut up and focus on the screen! But I have to make an exception for the guy who sat behind me at a showing of District 9 two weeks ago two and offered a hilarious running commentary before the movie began. He riffed on the inane commercials that play before the trailers, and when he got bored with that, he started pontificating on True Blood — specifically, how stoooopid it is that a bunch of vampires would live in the South. “Too much sun down there! Man, if I were a vampire, I’d keep my ass right here in New York City. Or, I’d move to Alaska!” He delivered these thoughts with such (humorous) conviction that I was tempted to turn around and start up a conversation with him. Soon, though, the lights went down and the trailers began. He didn’t have too much to say about Jennifer’s Body (go figure), but Final Destination 4 (embedded below) kept him mightily inspired.
The close-up on the sharp object at the 0:29 mark elicited a simple, yet perfect “Uh-oh!” Then, at the end of the clip, as one of the film’s stars starts screaming for dear life in the world’s most lethal car wash (1:47), he cracked: “What, she’s gonna get cleaned to death?” Ha! His swift dismissal of the ridiculously over-the-top horror flick made me laugh so hard, I was still gasping for air when District 9‘s opening credits rolled. Oh, and the best part? By then, the dude had simmered right down and didn’t so much as make a peep until the end credits.
Now you, PopWatchers. What memorable tidbits have you overheard at the movies?
When I went to see Inglorious Basterds last week some 70ish year old guy was asking some younger guys, “hey where is that German killing movie at?”
Wendy, Is 70ish bad? Or is it the Germans?
Gene
no 70ish is not bad or German’s. It was just so un PC that it cracked me up. Like something my gramps would say and he is in his 80′s.
I heard a drunk girl scream that it was her birthday, a woman pissed to be in the second row, and two people laughing so loudly at the smallest jokes. All at the Harry Potter 6 midnight showing!
Oh I heard some FUNNY stuff at the midnight showing of Harry Potter 6. lol. Most of them had to do with all the sexual innuendos that were in the movie.
During Star Trek this little old lady was sitting in front of me and every once in a while she would say “Oh that would NEVER happen” but she said it with such sincerity that i couldnt help but crack up
uh, is it me or did they just show the WHOLE movie???
That guy needs to stop talking before he burries himself. The vamps come out at night…no sun. However they cant just up and go wherever there isnt any sun and stay awake all the time. If the guy actually WATCHED the show he’d know that they need to sleep, or they would becomwe weak. So New York, Alaska, England or the SOUTH, they still need to sleep…Stupid article. Dont like goin to the movies dont go!
um, you do know that the show is fiction, right?
LOL bruce, you really need to get it together. i never understand why vampire books/movies always seem to take place in the south (even anne rice’s vamps came from the south), but the guy is right. why would you live around so much sun? especially if it’s lethal to vampires. (and we’re going to ignore any BS from twilight fans b/c that’s not a real vampire series)
When I went to see Vanilla Sky a long time ago, in the very beginning when Tom Cruise gets up and goes out..An older woman sitting behind me gasps and says
“You mean to tell me he’s not even going to brush his teeth before he goes out?? Shame on him!”..I just shook my head and laughed.
During the long, LONG wait of commercials before the movie, an AXE ad came on for Instinct.
Said by the guy behind me: “Yea, that’s just what I want to smell like, my leather couch.”
My boyfriend says the exact same thing when that commercial comes on!
I was in Star Trek and a 13ish girl in front of me kept making comments like “Oh, those uniforms look really comfy,” and “Can you do the hand thing? I can do the hand thing!” to her friend, who was getting really annoyed. When she finally said “They repeat everything twice in this movie! I’m geeking out!” I laughed aloud.
I’m one of those guilty of making comments during movies… A couple of gems come to mind. During Prestige, when Christian Bale’s character appears from the hallway into his future wife’s kitchen, my friend looked at me like “How?” and so I told her, “He’s Batman!” Apparently I said it just loud enough to make the whole row in front of us break out with laughter. Or during the credits for G.I. Joe, when I was more than ready to leave, my friend decided to stay and see if there was a bonus scene at the end, I told her if there was “it better be a public apology for the last 2 hours.” I really hated that movie… Hope this gives some people a couple of chuckles, happy weekend!
HAHAHA. You did. Mission accomplished.
My all-time favorite has to be during LOTR: The Two Towers, when some guy shouted “Run, Forest, run!” during the march of the ents.
You owe me a new pair of panties!! Forest…ents….ROFLMAO!!!
For God’s sake, don’t encourage these people. Some people can’t resist trying to be the center of the attention, even it means throwing out “funny” comments during the course of movie. And God help us all if ANYONE laughs, that’s all the encouragement they need to keep on going . . . .
If the movie is bad enough, or the situation ridiculous enough, I welcome some audience participation. It makes the experience fun, where otherwise I might just walk out and get me a refund.
Exactly. I made the mistake of seeing Jurassic Park 3 in theaters, and it was so bad the entire audience was taking turns making jokes, like MST3K writ large.
The same thing happened when I took my son and his friends to see the Happening last year. When a movie stinks that bad- you can’t help but comment. The guys who come in to clean up the popcorn apologized to us for charging money for that movie.
I agree totally. Do I want to pay $10+ for a movie and then hear some would be comedien making what he thinks are hilarious comments, but rarely are? Not a chance in hell. Makes a bad movie better? Not to me, it would just piss me off even more. Geez, it’s no wonder people love their home theaters now.
Amen!
During the “Jennifer’s Body” trailer, a guy behind me said “Megan Fox can murder me anyday!” so funny
We went to see Freddy vs. Jason and there was a scene where Kelly Rowland(of Destiny’s Child) was supposed to give Jason “mouth-to-mouth” and some guy said “Don’t do it! Beyonce will kick you out of the group too!”
I went to see a movie last month and during one of those Bing Commercials with the freaky pale lady, a guy shouted out “Go back to Narnia, Ice Queen!”
That’s pretty funny. But, I’m pretty sure you’re talking about the Palm Pre commercials…and if you are, I have to admit I have a HUGE crush on the “freaky pale lady” (what can I say? She’s pale and a redhead…just my type). That said, I hate those commercials.
Three come to mind, actually. The Dawn of the Dead remake was one of the best theater experiences ever because the crows talked back sooo much. Everything from “Open the window, you white bitch!” to “Where’d that dumb bitch get a crowbar?” I went to a Snakes on the Plane midnight screening and after two minutes, someone went, “Where’s the snakes?” My best friend shouted back, “They’re not on the plane yet” and the theater erupted. (Everyone was probably drunk.) At Diving Bell, I sat behind an old lady who tried to hurry up the saying of the alphabet each time, she was so impatient. It was distracting, but too amusing for me to stop it.
Snakes on a Plane was definitely a highlight as far as audince participation…people waving rubber snakes, hissing noises throughout, “where are the snakes?” comments…when its a movie like that I think audience participation makes it even funnier.